Rough Book: Evil of Teacher Poaching

With rising competitiveness in a world where each and every individual has to struggle through immeasurable odds to actually make something out of their lives, we are experiencing a revolution in the way education works. As coaching institues have emerged, there has been a drain of faculty from schools across India. Offering higher pay, these institutes steal teachers from schools, redering them staffless and incapable of providing the most accessible form of education.

Thus, arise another issue the world turns a blind eye to. The Government has not responded to this problem yet, and how would they if they are unaware? Primarily, due to the neglect faced by the government schools, the education of the needful continues to be hampered.

Depicting this very injustice, comes Anant Narayan Mahadevan's Rough Book. In a time where only the 100-crore club and above is appreciated, Rough Book is an art of a movie provoking the very issue of teacher poaching. With a non-commercial cast such as Tannishtha Chatterjee, Ram Kapoor and Amaan Khan, the film shines a bright light on the short-comings of the Indian Education system.

The very talented, Tannishta Chatterjee plays the role of Santoshi, who post-divorce joins, a school as a physics teacher. After a while, as she gets well acquainted with her students, who at first are brats with no interest in academics, an exponential improvement is seen in them. However, as a coaching institute opens up within the school premises, she is forced to quit her job. This daily problem often faced by a majority of teachers around the world. And thus, it was important to depict it in the most effective way possible.

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Such works of art are born out of concern and inspire the masses to take further steps to solve these daily problems that are faced by the citizens of our country. And it is imperative that we understand the purpose of them, so as to facilitate the true development of our country.

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